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  1. atari2600land

    "I dropped my toothpaste." Tom said, crestfallen.

  2. atari2600land

    "It's easy to play any musical instrument. All you have to do is touch the right key at the rght time and the instrument will play itself." - Bach

  3. atari2600land

    "pandemic" - a disease. "epidemic" - the spread of a disease. So this is an EPIDEMIC, not a pandemic.

    1. splendidnut

      splendidnut

      Actually:

      Pandemic

      adjective

      (of a disease) prevalent throughout an entire country, continent, or the whole world; epidemic over a large area.
    2. splendidnut

      splendidnut

      And just to cover all bases, pandemic can also be:

      noun

      a pandemic disease.
    3. JacobZu7zu7

      JacobZu7zu7

      Pandemic is as it sounds. A pandemic disease... otherwise we'd be saying, a "disease, disease" ... ??

  4. atari2600land

    "Underidoderidoderiododeridoo." Winston Churchill

  5. atari2600land

    @ least the spammers are having a field day with the COVID-19 virus. I keep getting special offers for masks.

    1. CPUWIZ

      CPUWIZ

      Atari Speaker Masks - Coming within weeks, not months!

  6. atari2600land

    2 apt last names seen on TV so far today: Meteorologist Amy Freeze, and some guy on Washington Football Team has the last name of Sweat.

  7. atari2600land

    6 days and counting with no power. I'm still alive.

    1. Atarian7

      Atarian7

      That sucks.  Where is that?

    2. x=usr(1536)

      x=usr(1536)

      I am really sorry to hear that.  We've had a couple of outages, but nothing on that scale.

       

      How are you set for fuels (natural gas, propane, etc.)?

    3. TwentySixHundred

      TwentySixHundred

      I had been in the same boat before and it's hard although i did just over two weeks. No hot shower either as that was electric, so had to pay a nearby caravan spot to let me use their amenities for a shower and laundry. Also bought myself a little propane camping cooker for food while at home. All i had for entertainment was mobile phone to keep charging via the car and a laptop that would have two hours battery life after a full charge. Safe to say i spent alot of time on the laptop at the local library. It was rough however when everything was finally sorted, i never took electricity for granted again.

  8. atari2600land

    A guy walks into a pet shop and says "I'd like to buy a fly." The clerk replies "We don't sell flies here." The guy says "There's one in the window."

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    2. Swami

      Swami

      I Want My Damn Fly!!!

    3. Rogerpoco

      Rogerpoco

      I was at the Nashville Zoo once, during the peak of my spider weirdness. Always kept a collection container in my pocket. (Lol, yeah, I know...).

      So I was trying to catch a huge fishing spider living "wild" at a goldfish stream.

      Wasn't successful in the catch(fishing spiders are terribly fast...), but someone in a zoo uniform(I have no idea who/what)came up to me and said it probably wasn't a good idea to remove animals from their natural habitat.

      It was all I could do not to laugh.

    4. GoldLeader

      GoldLeader

      ^Should have told him it's OK I have a zoo at home!

  9. atari2600land

    A Jaguar - $430

    A Sega CDx - $440

    Well, everything is overpriced at that store, but even still...

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    2. atari2600land

      atari2600land

      Fun fact: I got my Jaguar at the same store. It used to have a second location. I got it at the second location that closed down for about 1/4th the price about 10 (?) years ago. The second store had much better prices. Sadly, it closed a few years ago and now all that's left in our city is this.

    3. Clint Thompson

      Clint Thompson

      I recently looked into getting a Sega Nomad only to find out they're going for $200+ unmodded with a new screen, how unreal. So almost $300 for a completely modded Sega Nomad. We're going beyond MSRP prices of when things were originally released now.

    4. DoctorSpuds

      DoctorSpuds

      It's likely that the disconnect between desirable/rare items and common ones will only grow wider as things keep breaking or getting lost. It all used to be trash at some point. Maybe that's the best time to get into it, and hope you get lucky.

  10. atari2600land

    A plateau is the highest form of flattery.

  11. atari2600land

    A widow is mourning at her husband's grave. A man approaches and asks "Mind if I say a word?" "OK," she says. The man says "Plethora." "Thanks," she replies, "That means a lot."

  12. atari2600land

    Actually when you think about it, the old Don Music muppet on Sesame Street looks a lot like Don Imus. Coincidence?

    1. Joe C.

      Joe C.

      R.I.P.

  13. atari2600land

    Alas poor Yor...Ick! I'm holding a skull!

    1. SpiceWare

      SpiceWare

      That reminds me, I need to read Y: The Last Man again.

    2. deepthaw

      deepthaw

      Alas poor Yorgle, he looks like a frickin' duck.

    3. SlidellMan

      SlidellMan

      It's been so long since I read Shakespeare.

  14. atari2600land

    As it turned out, there was a TON of lint buildup in my mouse's wheel. I hadn't gotten it all, and it quit working. So I did some more digging into my mouse near the spin wheel and found it with tweezers. My question is how did it get IN my mouse?

    1. uosipa llamxew

      uosipa llamxew

      Same way it gets into my belly button.  MAGIC!

  15. atari2600land

    Atari in clickbait...

    https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-untold-story-of-atari-founder-nolan-bushnell-s-visionary-1980s-tech-incubator?utm_source=pocket-newtab

  16. atari2600land

    Atari was an answer (question?) in tonight's Jeopardy! The topic was about brand names and the clue was about the 2600 (and had a black and white/color TV switch)

  17. atari2600land

    AtariAge came back!

    1. Atarian7

      Atarian7

      I didn't know it had left.

       

       

  18. atari2600land

    Autumn starts in about 80 minutes, so happy autumn, everybody.

    1. carlsson

      carlsson

      I'll wait a little before I shift to studded tires on the car. Ideally two months.

  19. atari2600land

    Before the fruit orange was discovered, the English word for the color orange was geoluhread.

    1. Cebus Capucinis

      Cebus Capucinis

      Mmm, geoluhread nectar.

       

      Apparently it was a garbled way of saying "yellow-red."

    2. Zoyous

      Zoyous

      They say there are no words that rhyme with "geoluhread"

    3. SlidellMan

      SlidellMan

      And the e in Hrēad has a long/macron accent. Geoluhrēad, I learned that from

      https://www.oldenglishtranslator.co.uk and https://www.bosworth-toller.com, which are really helpful for Old English.

  20. atari2600land

    Before the update I had about 11,000 posts. Now I go to my profile page and it says I have 16,000. I gained an extra 5,000 posts somehow.

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    2. Random Terrain

      Random Terrain

      Maybe it counts status updates now.

    3. Albert

      Albert

      Yes, this is a total of all the "content" you have posted on AtariAge.  This includes forum posts, blog entries, gallery images, comments on blogs, probably status updates, etc.

    4. CPUWIZ

      CPUWIZ

      Gallery images and gallery images.  Whoaa.

  21. atari2600land

    Big thunderstorm in progress. Started an hour ago and still going.

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    2. atari2600land

      atari2600land

      The sun is shining.

    3. DragonGrafx-16

      DragonGrafx-16

      Had a crazy one last night and there was a tornado sighted a few miles from town. Lost power for 2 hours and a tree across the street got struck by lightning...

    4. Keatah

      Keatah

      Boom booms! Love it!

  22. atari2600land

    Boy, were the weather people wrong on this one. They said no snow, and it's about an inch and counting.

    1. Skwrl63

      Skwrl63

      Weather men/women are never right. Take whatever they say, and anticipate the opposite ?

    2. atari2600land

      atari2600land

      Final total: 2.5 inches. Now it must melt.

  23. atari2600land

    But I want permission to visit http://www.devkitpro.org/ !

    1. Serguei2

      Serguei2

      It works from google.

      https://www.google.ca/search?newwindow=1&source=hp&ei=F8rZXfOWErGt_Qbok7SYDQ&q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.devkitpro.org%2F&oq=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.devkitpro.org%2F&gs_l=psy-ab.3...2059.2059..3246...0.0..0.208.208.2-1......0....2j1..gws-wiz.e2CVfX1fk9w&ved=0ahUKEwiz_qefx4HmAhWxVt8KHegJDdMQ4dUDCAc&uact=5

       

      Go figure.

  24. atari2600land

    Buying a console on eBay is hard. I eventually bought one, but it angers me to no end that if people have games and have a way to test it, then TEST IT. And if it doesn't work, just list it as "for parts". Don't just throw it on there and say it's untested. TEST THE FREAKING CONSOLE.

    1. Rick Dangerous

      Rick Dangerous

      But then they'll find out it's broken and have to advertise it as such. 

  25. atari2600land

    Can anyone lend me two eighty-pound rats? I want to rid my house of cats.

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    2. carlsson

      carlsson

      It sounds like you're looking for a couple of capybara but I don't know if they'd attack cats. Perhaps CPUWIZ' raccoons are better suited for that.

    3. Kiwi

      Kiwi

      Didn't you have a dog? 

    4. Trinity

      Trinity

       

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